We publish in both physical sciences and computer science venues.

For physical sciences, we publish Nature, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Advanced Materials Technologies, etc. We present in SES, MRS, IROS, ICRA, GRC, APS, etc.

In computer science, human-computer interaction, the top venues (~ 20% acceptance rates) include the ACM CHI, UIST, DIS, UbiComp, etc.

FlexTure: Designing Configurable and Dynamic Surface Features

FlexTure: Designing Configurable and Dynamic Surface Features

Tate Johnson, Dinesh K. Patel, Humphrey Yang, Umut Civici, Adriane Minori, Lining Yao✉. FlexTure: Designing Configurable and Dynamic Surface Features. The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). 2023. PDF | DOI
🏅 Awards: Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

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Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding

Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding

Danli Luo, Aditi Maheshwari, Andreea Danielescu, Jiaqi Li, Yue Yang, Ye Tao, Lingyun Sun, Dinesh K. Patel, Guanyun Wang✉, Shu Yang✉, Teng Zhang✉, Lining Yao✉. 2023. Nature. Cover Story. PDF | DOI | IP

🏅 Honors: Cover Story of Nature
📣News: BBC | Wall Street Journal | Science Friday | Nature News | NewScientist | Reuters | Plantae| CMU News | Penn Today | Nature Biotechnology | Tulsa World | Seed World | Futurity

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Highly Dynamic Bistable Soft Actuator for Reconfigurable Multimodal Soft Robots

Highly Dynamic Bistable Soft Actuator for Reconfigurable Multimodal Soft Robots

Dinesh K. Patel*, Xiaonan Huang*, Yichi Luo, Mrunmayi Mungekar, M. Khalid Jawed, Lining Yao✉, Carmel Majidi✉. Advanced Materials Technologies. 2022. PDF | DOI

🏆 Honors: Cover Story of Advanced Materials Technologies | Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2022 (25/2000)
📣News: World Economy Forum | ACM Communications | CMU News| Environmental News Network | Interesting Engineering | Hackster.io | Futurity | TechXplore | Others
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ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables

ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables

Humphrey Yang, Tate Johnson, Ke Zhong, Dinesh K. Patel, Gina Olson, Carmel Majidi✉, Mohammad Islam✉, Lining Yao✉. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2022. PDF | DOI | Patent | Video

🏅 Awards: Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

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